A new Hogwarts Ghost?

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 46468

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "jastrangfeld" <msbonsai at m...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "kwilson1003" <delineate at h...> wrote:
> > If JK Rowling kills off a character in Book 5, will they come 
back 
> as 
> > a ghost?
> > 
> > From memory, she said in an interview that there will be more 
> > information about ghosts in Book 5.  And if she's just gone and 
> > killed a main character, maybe they'll become a ghost?
> > 
> 
> 
> She also said we'd see Cedric again in Book 5.  Perhaps he's the 
> ghost?

Are you sure about that one? I can't remember ever seeing that in 
any of her interviews, and to tell the truth, Cedric seems to me the 
least likely of any her victims to come back as a ghost. She said 
that ghosts aren't very happy people, and well, Cedric's presented 
as the sort of person who would be at peace with death.

On the other hand, I've been plugging for months for Barty Crouch 
Sr. to return as a ghost. No-one in canon dies a death quite as 
unhappy as he does, and it could tie in quite nicely to our dodgy 
auror subplot.

Unless of course the dodgy auror subplot exists only in our feverish 
brains.

Eileen, who suggests that a new acronym is needed to explain her 
posting patterns getting across the general idea that every theory 
is better if you include aurors, the Crouch family, and the 
Longbottoms, and is waiting patiently for Elkins' mega-Crouch post